Fairylands

  The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords. In that realm a man may, perhaps, count himself fortunate to have wandered, but its very richness and strangeness tie the tongue of a traveller who would report them. And while he is there it is dangerous for him to ask too many questions, lest the gates should be shut and the keys be lost. -- JRR Tolkien 

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River Scene, 1840 by Sebastian Pether (English, 1790–1844)

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River Landscape in the Evening Light attr. Simeon Fedorov (Russian, 1867–1910)

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Skymningslandskap med björkar - Anna Billing 

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The Forest Pet, 1871 by William Quiller Orchardson (Scottish, 1832–1910)

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The Snow Storm, 1859 by William Morris Hunt (American, 1824–1879) 

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Jeff Jones

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The abandoned hotel by zeno108 on Flickr.

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Video by Ruvim Miksanskiy from Pexels

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The Sleeping Princess, 1924 by John Duncan (Scottish, 1866–1945)

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Medicine Lake Jasper 1990 (by Gord McKenna)